Eke-out Definition

Eke-out Sentence Examples

• Pensioners are forced to retire and then eke out a miserable living.

• Nomadic tribes still eke out a living from the surrounding deserts.

• There are only a few scattered settlements within its borders, and a few nomadic tribes of savages eke out a miserable existence on the coast.

• She endeavoured unsuccessfully to eke out her irregularly paid allowance by those expedients to which reduced gentlewomen are driven - fancywork and painting fans and snuff-boxes; she lived in a garret and was often unable to allow herself the luxury of a fire.

• The pay of his rank was small, and his appointment on the quartermaster-general's staff made it necessary to keep two horses, so that he had to write mathematical school-books in his spare time to eke out his resources.